6. Read the sentences from paragraph 9. est answer to each question.
aeologist Acacia Pointer
Acacia Pointer: Something like that. Because the artifacts include a
variety of building materials and kitchen debris, the colonists could
have used this as a place to burn waste.
cavation of the historic colonial town of
Recent archaeological evidence has been
go. Our Town reporter Nadine Foreman
ng the Burrisville excavation, Acacia
What key idea is supported by the details in this paragraph?
Archaeologists used documents such as a map or journal to find the site and
materials.
rrisville are fascinating. Since your team
could you tell us more about the town's
Archaeologists searched for specific materials once they knew the function of
the buildings.
Archaeologists inferred the function of the buildings based on the materials
they uncovered.
citing time for my colleagues, students,
ing of three buildings in this town and the
e." Though we're still making guesses
other structures as a school, a store's
Archaeologists were unable to determine the function of the site because
materials were burned.
together from your work at the dig. Let's

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

answer: d.she abandons people when they least expect it.

in the monk's tale, we encounter seventeen stories that relate historical events. all of these stories have tragic commonalities. they tell the stories of heroes who, despite their success in life, all met sad ends. the monk blames these sad outcomes on fortune. one of fortune's traits is that she abandons people when they least expect it. this is one of the most common themes of medieval tragedies.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."